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tre4tije

of

Conjci

nce,

they

will

with

Saul

fall

down

to

heare

the

name

of

deaths

and

it

"sana.

no

spirits be

left

in.chetn.

Nay,

if

we

want

a good

confcience

28.20

.

when

we

lie on our

death

-

beds,

and

del

re

good people to pray

for us,

Good,

fir,

I

befeech you

let

me

have

the

benefit

of your

prayers

to God

for

me

:

Alas,

if

thou haft not

a

good

conícience,

all

the prayers under heaven

will

not help thee.

See

Heb.

z

3.

x8. Brethren,

pray

for

us

for

we

tru

fl

we

have a

good

con

-

fcience.

Mark.; The Apofllc telleth

them

they

may

pray

for

him with comfort,

bcautc

he

had

a

good conícience.

As

if

he

had

Laid,

If

we

bad

not

agood

confcience,

it

were

in vain

for

you

to

pray

far

us.

If

ever

God

de

rc the

prayer, made

for us,

we

mutt

have a

good

cònícience

Thofe that

have

not

this

good

eonfcience Chill never

enter

into

the kingdome

of

heaven

:

Though

they had Mores,

Daniel,

and

Job

to

pray

for

.then,

yet

all

their prayers

could not help them

in the

time

of

their

139

The

bond

of

Con

fcienee.

NOw

wee

muff

look

back

unto the

foure

Propofitions

which

at the

beginning

J

obferved

in

the text

r

am upon

;

x.

That

there

is

in every man a Confcience.

2.

That

the

light which directeth

confcience

is

knowledge.

3. That

the

bond

which

bindeth confcience

is

God; law.

4,

That

the

office

ofcon

cience

is

to bear witncdë, to

accufè

or

excuic.

j

have

in

the

handling

of

there

a

little

altered

the method,

and

fpake

of

the

two

fr2ì and

the

lafl.

Now

followeth

the third,

and

that

is

confciences$ond, which

is

Gods

law

:

Which fhew

the

werke

of

the

law

written

in

their

hearts,

&ç. It

is

onely the

work

of

Gods law that

it

beareth witneífe

of,

that

it

accuíeth

or excufeth

for

:

The law

of

God

is

conkicaces

bond.

Never -

theleffe

we

mull.

heredidltnguifla

:

The

bonds

of

confcience

are either

primary

and

fupreme,

or

fecondarie

and

relative.

.

The

primarie

and

fupreme

bond

of

confcience

is

onely

Gods

word

and

law

:.

that

onely

is

the

fupreme

bond

of

con

-

F

f

3

fcience

:

ripe bond

of

conach

ence

is

Gods

law.